Today's Highlight In History;
Birthdays:
1905 Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright
1908 Lord Forte, Hotelier and financier
1910 Cyril Cusack, Irish writer and actor; appeared in many films
1922 Charles Schulz, American cartoonist; 'Snoopy' & 'Charlie Brown'
1924 Pat Phoenix, Actress; TV's 'Coronation St' as Elsie Tanner
1933 Robert Goulet, American actor
1938 Tina Turner, American rock star and film actress
1948 Peter Wheeler, Former England rugby captain
Events:
1789 The first national thanksgiving day was celebrated in America, to mark the 1621 harvest of the Pilgrim Fathers
1867 The first ever woman to vote in a British election cast her vote, due to a mistake in the electoral register
1908 Lord Forte (1908), Hotelier and financier
1922 In Egypt, Howard Carter and Lord Caernavon discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, the first time the tomb had been opened for 3,000 years
1959 The House of Lords voted against the introduction of commercial radio
1972 The 'Race Relations Act' came into force in the UK
1983 At Heathrow airport near London, The Brinks Mat security warehouse was robbed of 25 million in gold bars
1983 In Auckland New Zealand, David Bowie performed to an audience of 80,000 people, breaking the attendence record for the Southern Hemisphere
1999 Retired Colonel Anthony Aboki Ochefu, former military governor of the old East Central State, assasinated by unknown gunmen at a petrol station in Oturkpo,Benue state
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